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Yeah, I recall hearing it'd take 500-800 years to stabilize if we literally stopped all emissions right now.
by mehrdadn 7y ago
Yeah, I recall hearing it'd take 500-800 years to stabilize if we literally stopped all emissions right now.
- singularity2001 7y agoEven with current emissions CO2 levels are periodically FALLING 6ppm each summer => Without emissions we would be back to normal in 30 years: https://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2013/05/mauna-loa-C02-ppm-full_record.png.860x0_q70_crop-scale.png https://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2013/05/mauna-loa...
- mehrdadn 7y agoIIRC it's falling because the oceans are taking the hit. I might be wrong about what exactly the figure was referring to, though -- might have been not just atmospheric temperature stabilization but other things too.